From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: xits font: some spacing and scaling problems
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:01:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1209271259270.2465@qrpragenyvmrq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120927165338.GA30843@khaled-laptop>
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:58:11PM +0200, Andreas Mang wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Not quite sure if this is the right place. I wanted to send this
>> directly to Khaled Hosny, but then I thought it might be good to have
>> some additional opinion on some of these issues (I am not quite sure
>> if some of this is intended behaviour).
>>
>> I have collected some examples for which I think there are some
>> scaling and spacing problems in xits.
>>
>> Also, small caps are not supported. Is this intended?!
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE %%%%%%%%%%%%
>> \setupbodyfont[xits,11pt]
>>
>> \starttext
>> $\diamond$ % too small?!
>>
>> $\square$ % OK?!
>>
>> $\blacktriangleright$ % too big?!
>>
>> $\blacktriangleleft$ % too big?!
>>
>> $\blacktriangle$ % too big?!
>>
>> $\blacktriangledown$ % too big?!
>
> None of those glyphs were changed in XITS, they are exactly the same as
> the ones in STIX fonts, so possibly ConTeXt is using the wrong Unicode
> character for those symbols. The later two are smaller with LaTeX
> package unicode-math.
That is most likely the issue. I never really understood what all these
triangles should map to. Should we target unicode-math the reference
implmentation?
Aditya
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-27 14:58 Andreas Mang
2012-09-27 16:53 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-09-27 17:01 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-09-27 17:05 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-10-02 19:31 ` Andreas Mang
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